My tiny laptop has worked rather well so far, but I’ve decided, due to some unexplained problems, to upgrade it to a newer version of kernel, aka 2.6.14.2. Based on my own blog’s entry (what good are blogs if not to hold some long forgotten knowledge?), which can be found here, I’ve upgraded my kernel…
I’ve got to get one of those. It’s like the coolest thing in the world. You can aim and shoot, and all directly from your PC. The challenge, afterwards, would be to make it work under Linux, either directly, or via Wine. Who cares? And later addition: Also one of those, but they’re so expensive……
In the long forgotten days of NT4, there was not Unicode. In these older days, one could use English, and the language the server machine was predefined for. In our poor and sad case, English alone. This is a story of a poor filer, member of a multi-site NT4 domain, which, due to latency and…
Here’s a little issue. If you were to replicate MS Exchange DB from one machine to another, how/what would you have done? The scenario goes as follows: You have your own domain, and you use, for your own core services AD and MS Exchange for the whole organization. While AD supports some built-in replication, so…
I am not a security expert. I know my way, and I can use common sense, which is the best practice for a good security, but I get to hear terrible things. Not only the hunt for file sharing people is on full throttle, but media companies try (and succeed) in providing yet better, meaner,…
When I’ve created my setup (displayed below), I took into account the possibility of disconnection, or process fall, and I’ve left pppd to deal with it, by trying to connect just as it has fallen down. It was a good solution for the scenarios where there is a temporary, short timed disconnection. It fails to…
